Around Town 12/30/2013

Rescue the Animals, SPCA, in conjunction with the Abilene Animal Shelter, is offering you an opportunity to save a life and find yourself a loving companion.

Since 2000, the organizations have put every animal at the shelter on sale for the month of December.

The Abilene Animal Shelter is offering a special holiday discount of $20 for puppies, kittens, dogs and cats adopted from its facility through Dec. 31. Rescue the Animals is joining the shelter in offering additional promotions.

During this special adoption sale, unsterilized dogs will cost $60 and unsterilized cats will cost $50. Sterilized dogs and cats will cost $15 each.

Rescue the Animals will provide a $20 spay/neuter mail-in rebate coupon on each animal adopted from the shelter. The coupons are good at any veterinarian’s office.

Visit www.aaeeff.org for information on more than 75 locally awarded scholarships, 275 national scholarships and 57 scholarship competitions. The site also offers links to government grants and loan programs, online FAFSA and scholarship search engines.

Online book club

The Abilene Public Library offers an online book club for avid readers. Sign up and receive five-minute selections of the featured book by email Monday through Friday.

At the end of the week, you will have read two to three chapters and can decide whether you want to check the book out to continue.

Several clubs are offered, including fiction, teen, classics, romance and more. For more information, visit www.abilenetx.com/apl.

‘Speaking of Clint’

Anna Powell, Judy Tedford Deaton and Linda Murray will participate in a panel discussion on local artist Clint Hamilton at 6 p.m. Jan. 9 at The Grace Museum, 102 Cypress St.

Looking ahead

The Abilene Quilter’s Guild will present its 19th annual Stars Over Abilene Regional Quilt Show on June 13 and 14 at the Abilene Civic Center, 1100 N. Sixth St.

The event will include quilt displays, vendors, demonstrations, challenges and classes. More details to follow, but now’s the time to start working on entries.

The group meets the second Monday of each month at Highland Church of Christ, 425 Highland Ave. A meet-and-greet begins at 6:45 p.m. and the meeting begins at 7 p.m. For more information, visit abilenequiltersguild.com.